Poetry Winner: "Thursdays" by Tanya Horwitz

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Thursdays

The flamboyant Harvard graduateThe dark lady with the soft baby faceThe old Irish womanThe pretty blonde girlThe emerald-eyed enigma with the caramel-dipped melody in her voicewho always comes latewho wears a ring on the middle finger of her left hand.And me. The child.

Maybe your father died on Sunday, but you came here anyway.

Maybe you’re trying to get over the fact that the microwave at your office broke this afternoon and that you had to eat your lunch cold.

Maybe you got a DUI last winter, and that’s why, at age 39, you need to ask for rides.

Or maybe you never learned to drive at all.

But who am I to question you random smattering of people, you random colored paints on a palette.

But that is the precise question.Who am I? To you?

And yet it almost seems naturalThe place that looks like it could be an elementary school roomFilled with us